Guidelines say: At least ten organ systems must be reviewed. Those systems with positive or pertinent negative responses must be individually documented. For the remaining systems, a notation of indicating all other systems are negative is permissible. In the absence of such a notation, at least 10 systems must be individually documented.
There are 14 possible systems to be reviewed. Does this statement mean that to get credit for a complete ROS you have to individually document the 10 systems and then all remaining (4) can be documented as "all other systems negative)?
I have always allowed my providers to document the pertinent +/- (however many that may be) and then state "all other systems negative" to get credit for a complete ROS. A coder on our team is reading the guidelines differently so we thought we'd see how others interpret this.
Thank you,
There are 14 possible systems to be reviewed. Does this statement mean that to get credit for a complete ROS you have to individually document the 10 systems and then all remaining (4) can be documented as "all other systems negative)?
I have always allowed my providers to document the pertinent +/- (however many that may be) and then state "all other systems negative" to get credit for a complete ROS. A coder on our team is reading the guidelines differently so we thought we'd see how others interpret this.
Thank you,